I guess what you're saying is... "Past performance is no indication of future results".
The American business landscape has been litered for well over a hundred years with companies that are gonna make big bucks "next year". I've even worked for a couple. But, never longer than "next year".
Does your financial prediction still hold if Caitlin Clark doesn't capture everyone's attention in the WNBA like she did in college, for whatever reason?
I guess time will tell whether the WNBA will more closely resemble the NFL or the WFL, or the XFL, or...